Image Analysis and Synthesis of Skin Color Textures by Wavelet Transform

The present paper proposes a skin color texture analysis method based on wavelet transform for detecting different texture patterns including local non-periodic features. We modeled skin color texture as the composition of four texture components of base color, internal skin texture, regular surface texture and local texture. The skin color image is decomposed to the four texture components by multi-resolution analysis using wavelet transform. A variety of skin images with different conditions of skin color and texture are created in a linear combination of the texture components. Experimental results show good separation of skin textures by wavelet analysis and realistic synthesized images